The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher speaking at the 40th anniversary of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue in Southfield, Michigan. (L-R) JCC President John H. Shepard, Max Fisher, Executive Director Alvin L. Kushner, and Judge Damon J. Keith.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.
In 1974, the Hadassah Wizo of Canada, a Jewish women's philanthropic organization, inscribed Max Fisher as a governor of the Haifa Community College in Winnipeg.
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
"The Gang of Eight" article
Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
Gerald Ford discusses Max Fisher's effectiveness.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
In the Fall of 1971, Henry Ford undertook the largest single building venture in Detroit’s history. The project was the Renaissance Center, also known as “RenCen.”
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Robert Aronson on Max Fisher's fundraising prowess.
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
United Jewish Appeal V-E Day Commemorative Medal
Renaissance Center
Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.